Lambda · 2 months ago
IT Systems Engineer, Infrastructure & Platform Reliability
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid Level
$206K/yr - $310K/yrLambda is a company that builds Gigawatt-scale AI Factories for Training and Inference, aiming to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity. The IT Systems Engineer will be responsible for designing and delivering software and services to enhance the reliability and efficiency of internal IT systems, collaborating across various teams to implement tools and automate workflows.
AI InfrastructureArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingGPUMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Design, write, and deliver software and services to improve the availability, scalability, reliability, and efficiency of Lambda’s internal IT systems and platforms
Solve problems relating to mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence with the goal of automating response to all non-exceptional events
Work with Lambda Engineering and internal teams to Influence and create new designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems
Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis, and system tuning
Be an excellent communicator, producing documentation and related artifacts for the systems you are responsible for
Qualification
Required
Design, write, and deliver software and services to improve the availability, scalability, reliability, and efficiency of Lambda's internal IT systems and platforms
Solve problems relating to mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence with the goal of automating response to all non-exceptional events
Work with Lambda Engineering and internal teams to Influence and create new designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems
Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis, and system tuning
Be an excellent communicator, producing documentation and related artifacts for the systems you are responsible for
Have a keen interest in system design, architecting for performance, scalability, and experience with multiple cloud infrastructure platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
Think carefully about systems: edge cases, failure modes, behaviors, and specific implementations
Know and prefer configuration management systems and toolchains (Chef, Ansible, Terraform, GitHub Actions, etc.)
Have solid programming skills: Python, Go, etc
Have an urge to collaborate and communicate asynchronously, combined with a desire to record and document issues and solutions
Have an enthusiastic, go-for-it attitude. When you see something broken, you can't help but fix it
Have an urge for delivering quickly and effectively, and iterating fast
Preferred
Experience and interest in ML/AI workloads and compute
Practical experience implementing and managing paging, alerting, and on-call scheduling flows
A positive attitude, combined with a desire to learn and collaborate
Benefits
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Wellness and Commuter stipends for select roles
401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
Flexible Paid Time Off Plan that we all actually use
Company
Lambda
Lambda is a cloud-based platform that provides high-performance GPU hardware and cloud infrastructure for AI model training and inference.
Founded in 2012
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$3.19BKey Investors
TWG GlobalJP MorganMacquarie Group
2025-11-18Series E· $1.5B
2025-08-19Debt Financing· $275M
2025-02-19Series D· $480M
Leadership Team
Stephen Balaban
Co-founder, CEO
Michael Balaban
Co-Founder / CTO
Recent News
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